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Technical Recruiter - AI/ML
$120K–$170K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States
About the job
Own full-cycle recruiting for specialized AI/ML and related technical roles, from defining talent needs with engineering leaders through sourcing, evaluation, and offer close.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies, including targeted outreach to passive candidates.
- Assess candidates’ technical backgrounds and contributions across AI/ML, robotics, and related fields.
- Use recruiting data and market evidence to improve search strategies, processes, and candidate experience.
What they ask for
- Experience recruiting AI/ML, software engineering, robotics, autonomy, or similarly specialized technical talent.
- Demonstrated success finding and engaging passive candidates in competitive talent markets.
- Strong sourcing fundamentals and ability to translate technical requirements into effective searches.
- Experience partnering directly with engineering leaders and senior hiring managers.
Nice to have
- Recruiting experience in foundation models, computer vision, perception, autonomous vehicles, robotics, multimodal AI, world models, reinforcement learning, ML systems, or ML infrastructure.
- Curiosity about technical distinctions between using, training, and developing models and building systems around them.
Pay
$120,000 - $170,000 per year (USD; base salary)
AI focus
Recruiting for AI/ML research, machine learning engineering, perception, robotics, autonomy, and ML infrastructure roles.
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